Student affairs administrators in higher education spend time advocating for students in times of crisis. Whether case management occurs within a full-time case management role or as added responsibilities onto an administrator's job, the hours and minutes spent helping students manage crises add up to a significant amount of time. This article…

This manuscript proposes a mathematical model to address faculty sufficiency requirements towards assuring overall high quality management education at a global university. Constraining elements include full-time faculty coverage by discipline, location, and program, across multiple campus locations subject to stated service quality standards of…

Smaller universities may produce research which is on a par with larger, elite establishments. This is confirmed by a recently developed mathematical model, supported by data from British and French higher education research-evaluation exercises. The detailed nature of the UK system, in particular, allows quantification of the notion of critical…

The use of computational diagrams and nomographs for the calculations that frequently occur in college administration is examined. Steps in constructing a nomograph and a four-dimensional computational diagram are detailed, and uses of three- and four-dimensional diagrams are covered. Diagrams and nomographs are useful in the following cases: (1)…

A difference equation model of a university budget system is proposed and analyzed. The conditions for first-order and second-order dynamic equilibrium are determined, and it is shown that first-order equilibrium provides a useful criterion for financial health. (Author/JG)

Describes a mathematical programming model for determining the admissions policies necessary to produce optimal enrollment levels, given certain constraints on enrollment capacity and minimum and maximum admissions levels. The model is then used to analyze the possible consequences of the introduction of a summer term in Yale College. (Author)

Describes a mathematical model for planning the transition to long-run financial equilibrium for a university budget, and presents data demonstrating the model's application at Stanford University. Available from: The Institute of Management Sciences, 146 Westminster Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02903; $40.00 annually. (JG)

Investigates the problem of assigning faculty to courses at a university. A program is developed that is both efficient, in that integer programming is not required, and effective, in that it facilitates interaction by administration in determining the optimal solution. The results of some empirical tests are also reported. (Author)

The origins and range of applications of the academic matrix, or ICLM (Induced Course Load Matrix), are described by its originator. Its identification of interrelations among student majors and their course preferences makes it useful for academic planning and curriculum reviews, particularly in simulation models for exploring costs, personnel,…

A mathematical model for costing college courses, designed for purposes of accountability, subprogram cost analysis, marketing to foreign students (in Australia), and course cost analysis across institutions, is presented and discussed. (MSE)

Describes a multiperiod programming model designed to aid college administrators in planning and decision-making for a five-year horizon. The model includes staffing goals, career constraints, teaching and course loads, tenure constraints, and budget constraints. Methods of using the model are discussed and a small example is presented. (Author/JG)

Describes in detail a model for determining the optimal allocation of indivisible academic departments for a multicampus university and then uses the model to calculate departmental allocations for the State University of New York at Buffalo, a 23,000 student university with three campuses and approximately 100 academic departments. (JG)

A model with only ten or twenty decision variables can be more instructive than large scale cost simulation models. Research efforts should concentrate on understanding the order-of-magnitude effects of proposed policy changes on various indicators of system performance. (Author/VW)

Noting that mathematical modeling is a relatively new phenomenon in higher education and that much can be learned from the misdirections and mistakes that characterize modeling in general, the author describes major criticisms of modeling and suggests improvements, particularly in communication between modelers and potential model users. (JT)

Some of the conceptual qualitative ideas needed to test nonlinear models empirically and to modify them are described. Relationships among these ideas and computer applications are also examined to elucidate the general process of nonlinear modeling. Two examples are presented along with a discussion of bifurcation, catastrophe, and maximum…